In the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, Lambda Legal serves as our community’s last line of defense. During the first Trump administration, we opened a new office in Washington, D.C. and worked in coalition with sibling organizations across our movement to hold the line when our rights were attacked. In those four years, Lambda Legal filed 14 lawsuits to Trump policies and actions and racked up 12 wins, an 86% win rate in those cases, successfully blocking atrocities like Trump’s attempt to remove transgender service members from the United States military.
We will defend our community again.
Lambda Legal is launching an Emergency Response Fund to bolster the resources we will need. The fight ahead is long and it will be tough.
To kickstart this fund and begin our work, we must raise $1 million in new funds before December 31, 2024.
Our plan relies on the following pillars:
1. Defend what we’ve gained. Drawing on our past successes, we will execute a policy and litigation strategy to defend the advances made before and during the Biden administration and in many states. We will not give up the ground we have won.
2. Build pro-equality safe zones. Work with pro-equality governors, attorneys general, state agencies, and local government leaders to defend LGBTQ+ rights nationally by helping states challenge federal overreach, expand LGBTQ+ protections within their borders, provide refuge for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV from hostile states, and build models of sensible, affirming public policy.
3. Leverage the courts as a last line of defense. With the executive and legislative branches of the federal government in anti-equality hands, the courts often will be our only hope of stopping a substantial rollback of our rights. Our victory is never guaranteed, but the judicial branch can be our best path in the current political landscape.
4. Educate America to lay the groundwork for the future. While we address immediate threats, we must keep our eye on long term systemic change and shift culture. We will work to humanize LGBTQ+ people— particularly trans and non-binary Americans — and everyone living with HIV to build support for equality.
FUND THE FIGHT
